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Geekbench Scores Suggest iPhone 7 Outperforms Current 12.9-Inch iPad Pro

Whatever it is, it's a fast as a 2016 MacBook, 2015 iMac and 2011 MacBook Pro. That's desktop speed.

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Another set of Geekbench results claiming to be from an iPhone 7 have appeared online, just a day before the device is set to be announced.

We've seen alleged Geekbench reports before - screenshots that turned out to be fake - but emerging so close to the phone's unveiling and appearing on the PrimateLabs site, this one may have more legitimacy to it.

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The device is identified as an "iPhone9,3", which may refer to a third model of iPhone 7, given that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus carry the hardware strings "iPhone8,1" and "iPhone8,2", respectively. And yet the RAM for the device is stated as 2GB, whereas previous rumors imply that the iPhone 7 Plus will get 3GB RAM, suggesting this is a 4.7-inch device.

The scores indicate significant performance gains owing to the A10 chip expected to feature in the iPhone 7. If the results are legitimate, a single-core score of 3379 and multi-core score of 5495 show that a 400MHz A10 processor easily beats the performance of the A9 in the iPhone 6s Plus, which scores 2490 and 4341, respectively.

On these results, the A10 also outperforms the 2.2GHz A9X chip powering the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which returns Geekbench scores of 3224 and 5466, respectively.

Interestingly, the report says the handset is running a future version of iOS 10 (10.1) that has yet to be seeded to developers, implying that the test was conducted internally, apparently with full knowledge that the results would become public.

As noted, suspension of belief is advised without any official confirmation, but we shouldn't have to wait long before more concrete results begin appearing in the wild.

Apple is expected to reveal its new iPhones tomorrow, along with a second-generation Apple Watch, and refreshed Beats products. Apple should also provide final release dates for iOS 10, macOS Sierra, tvOS 10, and watchOS 3, and it may have other product and service updates to announce. Check back with MacRumors.com for live coverage and through the @MacRumorsLive account on Twitter.

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soupcan said:
Maybe instead of continuously being on full speed Apple did an Intel and got some form of turbo clock on it? Lower the base clockspeed for reduced power consumption, then turbo it up when the power is needed.
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They already do; every smartphone has been doing this for years. Some of them even have an entire less-powerful CPU and just plain turn the powerful one off (it's called "big.LITTLE"), similar in some ways to a hybrid car.
 
While the metaphor is mixed between software and hardware, I have expected for a while that the iPhone 7 will very much be a 6S-S version akin to the "Snow Leopard" of iPhones. I anticipate that the lack of headphone jack, signalling a move toward bluetooth and lightning devices - and an eye toward the future - plus the greatly improved internal specifications will mean that this phone will become a favourite of many people for years to come.

I'm very slowly getting over the headphone jack business. Very slowly.
 
I; for one, will welcome our new headphone jack-free overlords.
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yesjam said:
While the metaphor is mixed between software and hardware, I have expected for a while that the iPhone 7 will very much be a 6S-S version akin to the "Snow Leopard" of iPhones. I anticipate that the lack of headphone jack, signalling a move toward bluetooth and lightning devices - and an eye toward the future - plus the greatly improved internal specifications will mean that this phone will become a favourite of many people for years to come.

I'm very slowly getting over the headphone jack business. Very slowly.
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Interestingly, the report says the handset is running a future version of iOS 10 (10.1) that has yet to be seeded to developers, implying that the test was conducted internally, apparently with full knowledge that the results would become public.
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This is what we call running bleeding edge builds. They're likely nightly internal builds or even developer workspace builds.
 
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This is what we call running bleeding edge builds. They're likely nightly internal builds or even developer workspace builds.
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Which really makes one wonder about the validity of the GB results...[/QUOTE]

One should always question the validity of GB.
 
If true, these are speeds my laptop would be envious of. I mean 6000 multicore is plenty for pretty heavy audio work. It's a shame the app ecosystem is so far behind with DAWs and plugins.
 
Why is "it's faster than last year's processor" a headline? Let me step back and ask this: Why do headlines "it has a faster processor" and "it has more megapixels" make front page at all? Aren't these givens at an annual release? Who's going to get up on stage and say "The new iPhone is slower than last year's models. We're so excited here in Cupertino about it!"
 
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soupcan said:
Maybe instead of continuously being on full speed Apple did an Intel and got some form of turbo clock on it? Lower the base clockspeed for reduced power consumption, then turbo it up when the power is needed.
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An iPhone CPU is rarely run at full speed. It is normally powered nearly completely off, and only turned on every dozen or so milliseconds for just an even tinier time slice. The faster the CPU runs, the faster is can turn off again, and thus the longer the battery life. That's why they turbo clock so high.
 
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crsh1976 said:
Nice, but current CPUs are already plenty fast - what are the actual features/benefits of upgrading to the iPhone 7?
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Faster CPU/GPU means less power usage even if you don't care about anything else.
Why? Because the CPU can be idle much of the time (in which case it consumes little power).
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neveruseq said:
Why is "it's faster than last year's processor" a headline? Let me step back and ask this: Why do headlines "it has a faster processor" and "it has more megapixels" make front page at all? Aren't these givens at an annual release? Who's going to get up on stage and say "The new iPhone is slower than last year's models. We're so excited here in Cupertino about it!"
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The increase is substantial, which considering they're on a variant of the same process, is unexpected.
There would have be some substantial architectural changes too, or a major boost in clock speed, to have such an increase.
 
And now it became even harder to jump on the iPP-train..
I want that big iPad but it seems like the A10x might be a monster worth waiting for :)
 
firewood said:
An iPhone CPU is rarely run at full speed. It is normally powered nearly completely off, and only turned on every dozen or so milliseconds for just an even tinier time slice. The faster the CPU runs, the faster is can turn off again, and thus the longer the battery life. That's why they turbo clock so high.
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Hence the iPad Pro will still be faster since it will throttle less......Apple updates processors every year...who is shocked by performance improvements? People on this thread being amazed is a joke......until apps especially for the iPads become desktop replacements it does not matter how fast the processor is....iOS is a simple OS and doesn't need much to run (hooray for processor speeds)
 
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Crushes other smartphones on single thread performance. Gets crushed on multi-thread performance.

I'm not really sure how important multi-thread performance is on a phone. My guess is: not very much. With desktops even games can rarely use more than 2-3 cores.

For iPads it's time for Apple to take their SOC prowess to extremes and fiinally intro a quad core Ax SOC that obliterates the competition. We need ludicrously excess power to spark development of the next killer iPad app - an app that cannot be duplicated on Android because their hardware is impotent.
 
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Crushes other smartphones on single thread performance. Gets crushed on multi-thread performance.

I'm not really sure how important multi-thread performance is on a phone. My guess is: not very much. With desktops even games can rarely use more than 2-3 cores.

For iPads it's time for Apple to take their SOC prowess to extremes and fiinally intro a quad core Ax SOC that obliterates the competition. We need ludicrously excess power to spark development of the next killer iPad app - an app that cannot be duplicated on Android because their hardware is impotent.
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It doesn't really get crushed in multithread, even with 6 less cores.
Considering AMD bested Intel in Multi core for a long time, we all know how multi core is "important" to actual real world apps on a desktop. On a mobile phone, its actually next to useless cause very few apps use all the cores efficiently.
For god's sake, the OS itself doesn't even use these cores efficiently as Safari on the Iphone creams any other browser on Android! let alone a random app.
 
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For iPads it's time for Apple to take their SOC prowess to extremes and fiinally intro a quad core Ax SOC that obliterates the competition.
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Quad core isn't obliteration. Even Octo core is passe.

Obliteration would be an Axx chip with enough cores to run 1000's of compute threads, like a Tesla or Pascal GPU, but inside a cool battery-sipping iPhone power envelope. Plus a couple blazing hyper-turbo single-thread processor cores on the side for legacy code. That would be Obliteration.
 
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